Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

A better idea than my own is to listen.